How to Remove a Picture from Google Images

[Music] hi guys and welcome to another video before we get into the nitty-gritty of this video please remember to subscribe and like this video if it helped you today I'm going to be showing you how to remove an image from Google Image Search you'll be able to remove a social media image / picture or update an old one on the Google image search engine this will also work for a website you own or any website for that matter that has had its concept changed or removed now the first thing you'll need to do is navigate to this website here www.google.com / webmasters slash tools slash removals you don't actually need the rest of the URL so I'm just going to delete it here and refresh the page once you've navigated to this URL you'll be greeted with the sign-in page by Google here you'll need to log in to your Google account if you do not have a Google account I'll put a link in the description to one of my videos of how to create a Google account great so you've created your Google account and you've signed in now you'll be greeted with this page which is on the Google search console and it is to remove outdated content where you'll be required to paste in the image that you want removed into this box here and then click request removal so that's exactly what we need to do so I'm going to open up a new tab here which I already have created just go to left click on it and it is Google Images now the URL is as follows it's www.eimage.com okay once you're here you'll need to locate the image or picture that you want removed from Google Image Search so what I'm going to do here is search my channel name which is web splaining and then I'm going to hit enter we are going to be dealing with two images today the first image is going to be this one here which is the wsg logo here which was on my social media platform called which no longer exists anymore because I took Vimeo down the second one will be on my personal website which is this logo here which is on web spanning comm and I've actually updated the logo on this website here so let's deal with it one at a time so the first one that we're going to be dealing with is this one here this wsg so what you want to do is you want to left-click on it and then I'm also just going to show you it just to show you how it currently looks like on the web so I'm just going to right click here and then I'm gonna go open link in a new tab and I'm just going to left click this new tab here just to show you the logo it doesn't exist anymore because I've deleted my Vimeo video channel and there you have it the wsg logo is currently not on this web page so I'm just gonna close out of this now so to get the image URL you simply need to right-click on the image here and then what you want to do is you want to copy the link address left click to do so and then what we want to do is go back to the search console here on the other tap left click and then what you want to do is left click again in this box and right click paste and then all you need to do is hit request removal Google will analyze the URL and it will say this content is no longer live on the website which is true and we're just going to hit request removal and as you can see you get this nice pop up here that says thank you for your submission we have received your removal requests the status of your requests will be updated once we process the request and I'm just gonna simply hit OK and as you can see on the bottom here we have the social media URL that we want removed which used to contain the image the status is pending the removal type is outdated page removal and the request day is today and you can cancel this request if you want okay so we've submitted one for removal let's go back to the other tab here which is our google image search so we have successfully submitted the request for a removal for this image here which is the first one now we're going to move on to this one here so again what you need to do is left click on it and I'm just going to show you again how the website which can Taine's this logo currently looks like so I'm just going to right click here and I'm gonna go open link in a new tab then I'm going to left click here just to show you again and as you can see the logo is no longer reddish it is in fact gray and this is what we want removed on the Google Image Search so what I'm going to do now is go back to the tab here which is the Google image search the left click and then exactly like we did the first time around we're going to right click now we're going to go copy link address and then we're going to go back to the search console and again you're going to click this text box you go in to right click and you're going to paste the URL then you're just going to hit the red box here which is request removal Google will analyze your link and there we go Google will ask you the URL you want to remove is web splainin com we think the webpage you are trying to remove hasn't been removed by the site owner which is correct the web site is still life however the image has changed and then you get this message in bold here which as has the web page been updated or removed at the source web site you go in to hit yes because the logo has indeed changed on our case going to hit next and now you'll have two further options to choose from the first option is that the Google cache is actually outdated and the second option is that the entire page or image has been removed what we're going to be selecting is the option that the Google cache is out date because the image currently displayed is in fact the old image and it is not true that the entire page has been removed nor has the actual image been removed it has simply been replaced by another so we're going to keep it the first option checked and then we're going to hit next you are now brought here and asked to enter a word that no longer appears on the live web page but appears in the cached version in our case it's an image that we want removed and the easiest way is to get the format of the image that you want removed from the Google Image Search so we're going to go back to the Google Image Search tab here and we're going to right click on our image and we're going to copy our image address left click on it open up a new tab and paste the link and hit enter at the top here you can see it says data : image / jpg it's in our case we'll go to copy the format here so in your case it could be jpg it could be PNG it could be other formats - but usually it's either JPEG or PNG okay once you got your image format you want to go back to the search console here which is the first tab for me and you'll want to just paste in the word jpg now hit request removal you'll get the generic thank you for your submission notification like our first submission and here okay your page will automatically refresh as you can see on the bottom here we have our website's URL stay is pending removal type in this case is changed content and the request state so as you can see we have an example for a social media removal of the complete page and we also have a personal website removal where the content has indeed changed alright guys so we've made our submissions and now we just have to simply wait for google to get around to dealing with these submission requests I'll get back to you and I'll put a timestamp probably in the description of how long it took for Google to get back to us see you in a bit guys alright guys so it's been about 10 hours I've refreshed the page and as you can see the Vimeo image is still pending and the removal type is outdated patron rule however we have a conclusion on our personal websites image and that states has changed from pending to denied and the removal type has change content now the reason for the denial is most likely due to the fact that we entered the wrong word that no longer appears on the live website so to fix this what we'll need to do is copy our Google Image Search link once again for that image which is on the second tab for me so I'm going to right click and then I'm going to copy link address I'm going to go back to the search console here I'm gonna paste in the link I'm going to hit enter and once again let's go through the motions here you're going to hit next and you're going to keep the first option and you're going to hit next again and now you're brought to this area once again where you're asked to enter a word that no longer appears on the live web page what appears in the cached version this time we're going to go the actual image name so what we're going to do is go back to the Google image search for our image you go to right-click on the image and you're going to go open image in a new tab you'll generate another tab containing only in that image which is the third tab here now left-click on it and again previously we copy the JPEG formatting this time we're just going to copy the actual image name which in our case if you hover over the tab itself is 2 Q equals equals and then in brackets you actually have the image dimensions we will only go with the image name which is 2 Q equals equals now you need to make sure that a capitalisation is taken note of once done go back to the first tab which contains the Google image search and you'll want to enter the name of your image so in my case once again it's 2 Q equals equals I don't you go into hit request removal you'll get a confirmation once again from Google and you'll hear ok it will refresh and then you'll have another request for a removal for that particular image all right guys I'll be back with you once we've got an update for the two remaining pending statuses all right guys it's been about two hours since the last two refresh and as you can see we have a couple of status changes you can see that the Vimeo social media image has been removed and in fact the second request for our personal websites image has been denied and this denial may be due to the fact that we need to include the directory URL of our image now to do this you'll simply need to go back to your Google image search and click on this link here so left click on it and then once you're on your personal website and you're simply going to right click over your new image and copy the image address and then you're going to go back to your Google search console and paste in the URL now you need to remember that the image URL you just copied is in fact the new one and you need to replace it with the old image URL now I know the image name and you should - if you own your website so as you can see the current image URL is called 8w dot PNG we're gonna change the 8w to the old image name to form the old image URL so in my case this was before wsg and now hit request removal Google will analyze your URL and it will say this content is no longer live on the website and hit request removal you'll get the usual submission that we've got a few times now and then you just simply hit OK and as you can see the image wsg dot PNG is pending removal I'll be back to you once again once the status has changed and hopefully with the successful removal of this image from Google Image Search alright guys so I've just refreshed the page and as you can see we have a state has changed for the WS G dot PNG image from web splainin com the status has changed from pending to removed great congratulations guys another image has been removed and that concludes the video I have shown you how to remove an image from a social media platform such as Vimeo this will also work for Facebook Instagram Twitter etc and from your own personal website in my case my own personal domain name which is web Swain and calm that I have full control over alright guys thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video and you found it helpful please remember to give this video like comment down below and don't forget to hit that subscribe button it really does support the channel and help me grow on YouTube alright guys see on the next one [Music] [Music]

Channel: Websplaining

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Length: 13min 11sec (791 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020